Gem Wizards Tactics

Gem Wizards Tactics’ latest faction: The Neverending Party!

Introducing the NEVERENDING PARTY, the new fourth faction in GEM WIZARDS TACTICS! The Neverending Party is a loose, spontaneous federation of musicians, artists and political activists who have risen up to fight for the oppressed across the globe. Coming from the far Northern realms, many of them are a species of Skeleton people – originally …

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Campaign Mode, and the Gem Wizards Tactics 1-Month Anniversary

EDIT: We’ve made a significant change to the Caravan on 3/18, before it was actually launched – you now no longer permanently lose units during the campaign. Read all about the changes that went into version 1.20 here.   Today marks the 1-month anniversary* of the launch of Gem Wizards Tactics! It has been QUITE …

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How to add strategy to your tactics game

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the last few years about short arcs and long arcs in strategy game design. “Short arcs” would be referring to local, short term operations – so in a tactical game, this might mean “defeating THIS unit” or “making sure that unit doesn’t reach this area”, etc. Longer …

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Gem Wizards Tactics Introduces “Derby’s Story”!

I’m super excited to announce that today, as of the latest patch (1.10) that Gem Wizards Tactics has a new mode: Derby’s Story. Since launch about two weeks ago, one of the common things I heard was something along these lines: “The tutorial is really easy and simple, but then the game throws you into …

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